Reaction is pouring in after the death of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, who led the U.S. Civil Rights Movement for decades.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." The writer Jill Lepore wrote a history of the United States called ...

Carter G. Woodson, the "father of Black history," founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A ...

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Black activists who pushed Philadelphia to place slavery memorial panels at a historical site in 2002 are once again fighting ...

Jackson was hospitalized in November after being diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a life-threatening neurological disorder similar to Parkinson’s disease.

Prime Video's Fallout revealed the New California Republic is no longer a powerhouse faction, but is hope lost for democracy ...